Expertise
Social and economic policy
Background
Past Positions
Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Economics, Co-Director of the National Poverty Center, and Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan; Member, Council of Economic Advisers; Professor of Economics and Director of the Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University
Expert Awards
Fellow, Society of Labor Economists (2006); Fellow, American Academy of Arts of Sciences (2005); Lifetime National Associate, National Academies of Sciences (2004)
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1983); B.S. in Economics, Summa Cum Laude, University of Minnesota (1976)